1:27 AM,
Mar. 18, 2013

Marist College players celebrate after winning the MAAC championship over Iona on March 11 in Springfield, Mass.

Written by

Sean T. McMann
Poughkeepsie Journal

Kristina Danella remembers the early days of her collegiate career. And she doesn't look back on them fondly.

"We were lucky if we got 100 people at our games, and it was all parents," said the fifth-year senior forward, recalling her two seasons at UMass.

Danella and the rest of the Red Foxes will be surrounded by three or four times that many fans tonight - not just parents, but friends, classmates, administrators and community members - at Shadows on the Hudson, where the Marist College women's basketball team will learn its NCAA tournament fate. ...